Gambling Addiction News

Gambling addiction ads bring results
CBC.ca
Kennedy said Health PEI is also looking for new ways to reach out to Islanders with gambling addictions. The number of people seen for treatment last year, 21, is considered very low. She said that may be because problem gamblers keep their addiction ...

Nonprofit boss sentenced for stealing to feed gambling addiction
Seacoastonline.com
PORTLAND, Maine — A former executive for York County and Rockingham County, N.H., nonprofits assisting the poor was sentenced to prison Tuesday for stealing $900,000 to feed his gambling addiction. Thomas Nelson, 56, of Alfred, was also court ...

Liverpool Echo
Speke gambling addict walks free from court after admitting £99k benefit fraud
Liverpool Echo
A gambling addict who swindled nearly £99,000 in benefits by claiming he could barely walk was caught on camera running down the street with two large dogs. Former drayman Edward Cavanagh, 59, was injured at work in the 1990s and ended up claiming ...

THE ALP'S GAMBLING ADDICTION
The Monthly (subscription)
Australians already lose more gambling per capita than any other country in the world. This year alone has seen a 20% increase in spending on gambling advertising. Governments around the country are addicted to gambling, but it's society as a whole ...

Sky News Australia
The new Illawarra gambling addict: who's at risk
Illawarra Mercury
Jeremy Prangnell, Mission Australia gambling counsellor for Wollongong and Shellharbour, said he had seen a rise in gambling addiction resulting from sports and smartphone betting over the past 12 months. MORE: Waterhouse $50m NRL deal dies ...
Not just 'a bit of fun': why sports, gambling and kids are a bad mixThe Conversation

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The changing profile of Illawarra gambling addicts
Illawarra Mercury
Jeremy Prangnell, Mission Australia gambling counsellor for Wollongong and Shellharbour, said he had seen a rise in gambling addiction resulting from sports and smartphone betting over the past 12 months. MORE: Waterhouse $50m NRL deal dies ...

The new Illawarra gambling addict: who's at risk
Illawarra Mercury
Jeremy Prangnell, Mission Australia gambling counsellor for Wollongong and Shellharbour, said he had seen a rise in gambling addiction resulting from sports and smartphone betting over the past 12 months. MORE: Waterhouse $50m NRL deal dies ...

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Addiction To Gambling Reason For Borrowing From Ah Long
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 (Bernama) -- A six-year addiction after winning RM26,000 at cyber gambling with a capital of only RM200 prompted a factory worker to borrow money from illegal moneylenders or 'Ah Long'. The gambling addict, who only wanted to ...

THE Weed Blog
NH Casino Would Mean Building Addiction Services From The Ground Up
New Hampshire Public Radio
... you a series of stories that look at the implications of opening a casino in the Granite State. Today we turn our focus to the potential social costs related to gambling addiction: how the state is handling problem gambling now, and how it could in ...
Turning up the heat on casino gamblingHampton Union
NH House Rejects Casino BillCBS Local
Column: NH Would Lose a Casino Border War With MassachusettsValley News
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ABC7Chicago.com
I-Team: Expanded gambling could deal Illinois a dangerous hand
ABC7Chicago.com
"I would just hate to have anyone go through what I did," said Pat Prosapio, the wife of a former gambling addict. "I needed that action; it was like a secret love. You will rob, steal, nothing is sacred in order to find ways to get money," said former ...

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IrishCentral
Top Irish footballer admits to gambling addiction that almost ruined his life
IrishCentral
A top Irish Gaelic football player has described how a gambling addiction almost ruined his life. Niall McNamee, captain of the Offaly football team, told the Irish Independent that his father's intervention and that of the Gaelic Players Association ...

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Christian Science Monitor
A record Powerball jackpot isn't a record to celebrate (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
States with lotteries have become so addicted to this revenue that they purposely look for new ways to create a gambling addiction among more residents. The eye-popping jackpots, made even larger as more states pool the winnings into larger sums, ...
OUR VIEW: Sad news: Gambling potential rises in SDDaily Republic
Editorial: Internet could benefit the LotteryLansing State Journal
A Billion Dollar Jackpot Soon? – How High Will Powerball Go if There is No ...Highlight Press

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'Jane' seemingly had the perfect life, until a gambling addiction brought a ...
Sunraysia Daily
Jane is a gambling addict and has been for the best part of the past decade. But Jane has also been brave enough to confront that addiction, albeit acutely aware that she has a long and difficult road to travel. Jane (not her real name) reckons to have ...

WFMY News 2
Some Women Get in the Gambling Game, Lose it all to Addiction
WFMY News 2
While men are considered "action" gamblers, it's estimated that 95 percent of women prefer solitary options like playing slots and video poker for one main purpose. "With women, we're looking at more of wanting to escape, what to escape from, what is ...

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WFMY News 2
Women Get into the Gambling Game
WFMY News 2
"It was just a game. I would get neighbor kids to play Sorry and I wouldn't let them leave until I won it all," she remembers. But it wasn't until the casinos opened in the Twin Cities area that her gambling escalated from that of a past time to a full ...

KpopStarz
Jimmy Connors Admits Gambling Addiction; Revelation Comes In Connors' New ...
KpopStarz
Former US tennis champ Jimmy Connors has come clean about the gambling addiction that nearly "broke" him during the height of his career. Jimmy Connors, who won eight Grand Slam singles titles in his career and was once ranked No. 1 in the world for ...
Inside StoryTennis Magazine

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Kansas City Star
His biggest save: Sporting's Jimmy Nielsen overcomes gambling addiction
Kansas City Star
He enjoys his new life, too, different as it is. The hardest part of kicking addiction is filling the void. Nielsen says he found his days "so boring" without the rush of gambling. At first, he slept a lot. Now, he picks up his youngest daughter and ...
Sporting KC Jimmy Nielsen releases biography, 'Don't bet against the goalkeeper'Examiner.com

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Gladys Knight Recalls Gambling Addiction
Michronicleonline
Gladys Knight is a music icon, having given the public such classics as “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “If I Were Your Woman,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (the Gladys Knight and the Pips version came out before Marvin Gaye's) and “Best Thing That ...

Kansas City Star
In new book, Sporting KC's Nielsen talks about gambling addiction
Kansas City Star
By TOD PALMER. The Kansas City Star. Reigning MLS All-Star and goalkeeper of the year Jimmy Nielsen opens up about his gambling addiction as well as his professional soccer career in a new autobiography, which Ascend Books released this week.
Sporting KC goalie reveals gambling addiction in new bookKCTV Kansas City

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Sporting KC goalie reveals gambling addiction in new book
KCTV Kansas City
In his new book, Sporting KC's popular goalie Jimmy Nielsen reveals how a hidden gambling addiction nearly ruined his life. He said his gambling was so out of control that he could win $500,000 and lose it all a few hours later. He bet on sporting ...